Thursday, January 19, 2012

Patent Top 20 in 2011

Rank  Grants                Company Name                                   Country
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  1       6180      International Business Machines Corp            United States
  2       4894     Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR                     Korea
  3       2821     Canon K K JP                                                Japan
  4       2559      Panasonic Corp JP                                        Japan
  5       2483     Toshiba Corp JP                                             Japan
  6       2311      Microsoft Corp                                              United States
  7       2286     Sony Corp JP                                                 Japan
  8       1533     Seiko Epson Corp JP                                     Japan
  9       1514     Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW            Taiwan
 10      1465     Hitachi Ltd JP                                                 Japan
 11      1448     General Electric Co                                         United States
 12     1411      LG Electronics Inc KR                                     Korea
 13     1391      Fujitsu Ltd JP                                                 Japan
 14     1308      Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P             United States
 15     1248      Ricoh Co Ltd JP                                             Japan
 16     1244      Intel Corp                                                       United States
 17     1164      Broadcom Corp                                              United States
 18     1095      GM Global Technology Operations LLC            United States
 19     1005      Renesas Electronics Corp JP                           Japan
 20       997      Honda Motor Co Ltd JP                                   Japan

Source : IFI Claims Patent Services

Top 20 per Country is
       Japan . : 10
       US.      :  7
       Korea. :  2
      Taiwan. :  1

To be honest with you, I did not know that Japanese companies patent files were so many granted. The question is how it relates with the business growth and success.

In the next 10 years, we might see other countries names such as China, India, Russia and etc.

How do you read this ranking for your business ?

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